[CivicAccess-discuss] Please send a letter to your member of parliament about copyright!

[Russell McOrmond]

   The First Session of the 39th Parliament was opened today with a Speech from 
the Throne.  While copyright is not one of the priorities of this new 
government, the Liberal Heritage critic Mauril Bélanger is already calling on 
the government to "introduce during this Session of the 39th Parliament 
copyright legislation to incorporate the amendments recommended in 2005 
amending the Copyright Act by implementing the provisions of the WIPO (World 
Intellectual Property Organization) Copyright Treaty as well as updating 
certain other provisions of the Act."

   We need to ensure that all parliamentarians hear from constituents that will 
explain to them why this is a bad idea for Canadian creators' and the rest of 
Canadian society.

   Please go to http://digital-copyright.ca and select the option to "send a 
letter to your member of parliament".  If you have the time to customize the 
letter, please do so.  For greater effect you could print your letter, sign it, 
and mail it to the parliamentary address of your member of parliament (free 
postage).

   If you have not yet signed the Petition for Users' Rights, please go to 
http://digital-copyright.ca/petition/ , print out the petition, sign it (and 
get some friends to sign), and sent it to us.  We want to make sure that 
petitions are tabled in the new government, requiring an answer to our petition 
from the new government.

   Thank you.

-- 
  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
  2415+ Canadians oppose Bill C-60 which protects antiquated Recording,
  Movie and "software manufacturing" industries from modernization.
  Send a letter to your Canadian MP! --> http://digital-copyright.ca/